2. The painting by, William Frederick Yeames, �When did you last see your father?� is on view at which Art Gallery?
3. Who am I? �I was born on the Island of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, in 1853. At the age of 24 I reportedly had an affair with the future King Edward V11, which was reported as lasting until 1884. Through moving in Royal circles, a life I could not afford, my husband was declared bankrupt in 1880. I became a famous, even infamous actress, making my London debut in �She Stoops to Conquer� at the Haymarket Theatre in 1881, and I was the subject of many renowned artists� portraits and even appeared on post-cards. Although entirely fictional as I never met him, I was even the imagined object of affection from such characters as the Western anti-hero, Judge Roy Bean. I died in Monaco in 1929.
4. Which Scottish folk star wrote the two now classic-folk anti war standards �The Green Fields of France� and �The Band Played Waltzing Matilda�.
5. What is the latin tag for �12� and also linked to this, is a printer�s traditional name for a page size, roughly 5 by 7 inches?
6. What was the profession of a Doge, in mediaeval Venice?
7. DĪ DĀ (滴答) is the Anglicised Mandarin onomatopoeic word for what sound and word in English?
8. Which famous super wealthy industrialist turned philanthropist was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835 and died in Lennox, Massachusets, USA in 1919?
9. What is the nearest equivolent in France, to the British County?.
10. What stretch of the North Atlantic, although many consider it to be at least purely poetic if not entirely fictional due to it mainly being referred to in pirate stories , is actually located at 75 to 40 degrees west and 25 to 35 degrees north?
11. Which former bustling textile town of Lancashire, UK, is forever linked with the similar town of Colne, and together were a political constituency up until 1983?
12. What name is used to describe crushed stone and recycled concrete for use or reuse in construction?
13. The Bummalo, a type of lizard fish, is more popularly known as what?
14. What is the approximare square root of 500?
15. Which famous architect built his own house which he called Taliesin, and in which his lover, her children and 2 servants were murdered, and the house set on fire, during his absence in July 1914?
16. Who wrote both the screen play for the film Jaws as well as the novel on which it was based?
17. What is the name of the Northern extension of the Gulf Stream Drift?
18. What is the furthest distance from the coast that is possible to be in England?
19. Who was appointed Lord Chancellor in 1529 after the departure of Thomas Wolsey?
20. The UK failed to pay the yearly payments on a war loan from the USA on 6 occasions; this was in 1956, 1957, 1964, 1965, 1968 and then, defaulted once more, in which year?
21. In which year did the UK parliament pass the final Australia Act, in which the UK officially ended any further legislation from the UK on behalf of Australia.
22. In which year did Granada TV start broadcasting?
23 Riboflavin, or Vitamin B2 is also known as which E number ?
24. The �Just in time� method of keeping only minimal stocks of easily accessed industrial parts and components, originated in which country?
25. Four US presidents have been assassinated while in office; Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and John F. Kennedy were three, who was the fourth?
26. Which part of a mechanical clock or watch, changes rotation into oscillation?
27. The Ports of Sandwich, Dover, New Romney, Hastings Hythe were collectively known as what?
28. What was the name of Moses� father-in-law?
29. Who created the characters for the animated series, The Simpsons?
30. Arthur Stanley Jefferson, born on June 16 1890 at 3 Argyle Street, Ulverston, in the Lake District is better known as which famous comic actor who died in 1965?
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